mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting

To prevent flooding the swap device with writebacks, frontswap backends
need to count and limit the number of outstanding writebacks.  The
incrementing of the counter can be done before the call to
__swap_writepage().  However, the caller must receive a notification
when the writeback completes in order to decrement the counter.

To achieve this functionality, this patch modifies __swap_writepage() to
take the bio completion callback function as an argument.

end_swap_bio_write(), the normal bio completion function, is also made
non-static so that code doing the accounting can call it after the
accounting is done.

There should be no behavioural change to existing code.

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 76f6c3b31235aa8381dc284a7572d14919c9baa2..b5b12c71a2af93dd1484111d28fde65ca60d43f3 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -330,7 +330,9 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t ent)
 /* linux/mm/page_io.c */
 extern int swap_readpage(struct page *);
 extern int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
-extern int __swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
+extern void end_swap_bio_write(struct bio *bio, int err);
+extern int __swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
+       void (*end_write_func)(struct bio *, int));
 extern int swap_set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
 extern void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio, int err);
 

diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c
index 8e6bcf176cfb32349586485bee69ffef3522140b..8e0e5c0e7cdb716b7b923597d3358a4302a64af2 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_io.c
+++ b/mm/page_io.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags,
        return bio;
 }
 
-static void end_swap_bio_write(struct bio *bio, int err)
+void end_swap_bio_write(struct bio *bio, int err)
 {
        const int uptodate = test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags);
        struct page *page = bio->bi_io_vec[0].bv_page;
@@ -197,12 +197,13 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
                end_page_writeback(page);
                goto out;
        }
-       ret = __swap_writepage(page, wbc);
+       ret = __swap_writepage(page, wbc, end_swap_bio_write);
 out:
        return ret;
 }
 
-int __swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
+int __swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
+       void (*end_write_func)(struct bio *, int))
 {
        struct bio *bio;
        int ret = 0, rw = WRITE;
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ int __swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
                return ret;
        }
 
-       bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page, end_swap_bio_write);
+       bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page, end_write_func);
        if (bio == NULL) {
                set_page_dirty(page);
                unlock_page(page);